Language is a tool of
communication that cannot be separated from human life. It is used in most of
our time to communicate to one another in order to fulfill our needs in social
interaction. There are many kinds of languages used in the world, one of them
is English

Reading is an
interaction between the reader, the author and the text. The technique of
teaching reading is very important to influence the students in success
reading. A technique can help students in reading, so in teaching English
a teacher must use technique or methods where can help the students to
comprehends easy what the teacher teach to them.

In teaching reading,
teacher should introduce other materials as an alternative to give various
situations to student in classroom process. These materials can be a media; it
can be create a comfortableatmosphere interest and to stimulate the students’ motivation during the
classroom process. In the other hand, most high motivation is needed to learn
reading.

This is an
interesting strategy and it can improve the student’s reading ability, namely
Collaborative Strategic Reading. This strategy to improve the students’ reading
comprehension.The
researcher apply her research in SMA Muhammadiyah Limbung because from the
observation and interview with some teachers and students, the researcher found
that some of students are still low in English reading skill.

Relating to the case
above the reseracher use Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR) to improve the
students’ reading comprehension at the first year students of SMA Muhammadiyah
Limbung. They still cannot use a good pronunciation in reading because they
consider that English subject is boring and scare. It is because of students
lacking in reading. As value of observation in the classroom the students, have
score 50, in the last semester the students score between, 50-65. This score is
a poor category. This research want to solve this problem until the students
have a good score

Syamsuriadi (2010:1)
states that to develop the students’ reading one must find out an effective way
of teaching and learning process especially in reading comprehension. The
teacher should use a good strategy to improve the students achievement especially
reading comprehension, So that the writer is interested in trying one strategy
that could be used by teacher to improve their teaching strategy (in teaching
English especially) and can help the students to understand the meaning of the
words/sentences, it is Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR) because this
strategy is good and new strategy for teaching English.